Tag: Family

The Season of Advent

When I wrote my post about Christ the King Sunday, which marked the end of the liturgical church year, I said that I would try to write about all the church holy days and festivals during this new church year. Although I’ve posted a few...

Christmas Stollen for Recipe Friday

Today I want to share a recipe I have never made, but I have eaten it many times, and it is delicious! For the past eight Christmases I have been blessed by one of my staff members who brings in loaves of this wonderful dessert...

Giving a Gift that Is Needed

Last week I wrote about my good advice to spend time each morning reading my Bible instead of getting online on my computer first thing and checking email, Facebook, and blog comments. I have been sticking to that plan, following that advice, every morning since...

Lots of Blue – My Tuesday Three

There are so many great Christmas songs, and I know I will never be able to share every one of my favorites this Christmas season. (I guess it’s okay to save some for next Christmas J). Most of my favorites are religious Christmas songs (that...

Spiral Honey Ham, Mashed Potatoes, and Gravy for Recipe Friday

Since yesterday was Thanksgiving, I thought I’d share recipes for the things I made that I’ve not posted before. We had a couple of repeats this year, including Apple Stuffing and Pecan Pie. But the rest of the meal was made on our Traeger. It...

Thanksgiving – A Poem

Today is Thanksgiving Day! It makes me think about how perfect Thankful Thursday is as a theme day. I’ve been looking back over the poems I’ve written for Thankful Thursday this year, and noticing on my stats page that they are getting hits from web...

My Favorite Cookbook for Recipe Friday

It’s been a really busy week and I haven’t made anything new to post a recipe of. We had Texas Skillet Dinner over the weekend, which I’ve had as leftovers three times. On Monday I made Beef Stew that was leftovers for dinner the next...

A Billion Prayers

All through grade school my son had various teachers who thought he had ADD or something else because he just didn’t pay attention. Then there were other teachers who saw the side of him that is very intelligent and creative. Finally, when he was in...

The Crossroads – Prose to Poetry

At the dVerse Poets Pub today readers were challenged to take a piece of prose and turn it into poetry. The prompt suggested finding an existing piece of prose in the public domain, but I was uncomfortable with doing something like that with another’s writing,...